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ACCORDION MUSIC is not the most popular among traditional music purists, but one of the great Irish exponents of the instrument, Alan Kelly, is well aware of “the pitfalls of traditional music”.

Galway’s arts community was out in force on Monday evening at the Radisson Hotel to celebrate the launch of the 33rd Galway Arts Festival, which will be weaving its distinctive spell over the city and surrounding regions from now until July 25.

MOZART’S MUCH loved Eine Kleine Nachtmusik will be performed by the Irish Chamber Orchestra in the 12th century surrounds of St Mary’s Cathedral Tuam on Wednesday at 8pm.

THE YOURODNY were the nomadic bards of ancient Russia who collected, preserved, and created the folk music of that country.

SINCE BREAKSTRA were announced to play the Galway Arts Festival last month, there has been much talk and expectation about the LA collective, so who are they?

ADRIAN CROWLEY is originally from Bearna and moved to Dublin in the early 1990s. For years he quietly worked away at this music, but now he stands on the cusp of great things.

THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).

THERE IS A certain symmetry at work in the career of Teenage Fanclub. Their debut album A Catholic Education was released independently in 1990 and since then things have come full circle. Twenty years on from that debut comes the band’s 10th album, the wonderful Shadows, also released independently.

ANTON CHEKHOV’S timeless classic Uncle Vanya is among the highlights of this year’s Galway Arts Festival in a much-praised co-production by two of Bristol’s foremost companies - the Bristol Old Vic and Shakespeare At The Tobacco Factory.

GALWAY YOUTH Theatre has consistently impressed at the Galway Arts Festival over the past number of years, so there should be plenty of interest in its two productions for this year - Polly Stenham’s Tusk Tusk and Mark Ravenhill’s Citizenship.